Children's Community Nurse | Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 04 June 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £29,970 - £44,962 per annum pro rata |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 04 July 2025 |
| Location: | Peterborough, PE3 6DB |
| Company: | Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7197523/310-MCYPF-7197523 |
Summary
This is a development post, if you are appointed as a Band 5, you will be given a list of competencies to complete, these will be reviewed at your appraisal. On completion you will rise to a Band 6.
We are seeking to recruit an enthusiastic and motivated Band 5 paediatric nurse to join the Children’s Community Nursing team.
This role will deliver nursing care and interventions to the children (0-18 years) and families within the Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Foundation Trust area.
You will receive support and guidance from an established CCN team to enable you to gain and upskill in your nursing abilities and to develop towards becoming a Band 6.
You will hold a case load of patients and be responsible for ensuring that their nursing needs are met. This will also involve delivering educational / teaching sessions to a variety of people including families and educational settings.
The post holder needs to be highly organised, adaptable and able to work under pressure, with care plans that often needing to change at short notice. Support will be provided to the successful candidate including clinical supervision. Successful candidates must be a car driver as this is a community-based post involving frequent travel to patient homes, schools and other venues.
To participate in the assessment, planning and provision of skilled nursing care in negotiation with the child and family, in conjunction with the Children's Community Team.
To provide skilled, effective, evidenced based nursing care for children with complex care needs including technology dependent such as tracheostomy care and central venous access.
To provide skilled, effective, evidenced based nursing care for children with a variety of nursing needs, such as enteral feeding, and intra-venous antibiotic administration.
To work in a collaborative manner with other agencies to ensure a seamless delivery of care to families
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Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high-quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting and empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.
Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services, not only via inpatient and primary care settings, but also within the community. These services include children's, adult and older people's mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, research and development.
To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high-calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including people with long term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.
Please be advised we reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date should we receive sufficient applications.
Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process.
For further information on CPFT, please visit our website at www.cpft.nhs.uk
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities.
1. To assess, plan, implement and evaluate the nursing care and support requirements for children with medical, health needs.
2. Provide skilled paediatric nursing care to children and young people within their own home, or other applicable venues such as outpatient clinics, to ensure families are supported in the care of their children at home.
3. Ensure continuity of care is established and appropriate support available for children, young people, and families, with the aim of preventing unnecessary admission or attendance at hospital and facilitating earlier discharge where appropriate from both local and tertiary hospitals.
4. Maintain excellent communication with the child and family on the caseload and as their advocate ensure that they have ease of contact with the team appropriate information and support. Records should reflect the child’s care, present condition and progress and be available to colleagues
5. Maintain the safety of children and young people by ensuring robust care plan are in place with the supervision of the senior team.
6. To liaise with children and their parents/carers along with other agencies who are involved in their care to promote a person-centred outcomes approach to supporting their needs.
7. Promote the health, comfort, dignity, privacy and quality of life for children and
young people.
8. To support the provision of acute care to children and young people following agreement of care from the wider teams.
9. Ensure prescribed nursing care is carried out in line with local and national policies including administration of SC/IV/CVAD IV treatments, taking of blood samples or specimens as required.
10. Identify those children and families with continuing care / complex needs and plan programmes of care in accordance with either the local agencies or continuing care framework.
11. To provide theoretical training and competency-based assessments in relation to nursing interventions for staff working in partner agencies including schools (mainstream and special needs), colleges and early years settings.
12. To support the Leadership Team in developing service improvements to ensure the health needs of the children and young people who use the service are met.
This advert closes on Wednesday 18 Jun 2025